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Virginia Andrews

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biffnbuster · 30/06/2012 13:54

Today I got a huge pile (37) of her books from a junk swap. Like a jumble sale but free !! I read her early ones back in the 80's are the newer ones worth reading ? Which ones are good?

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LurkingAndLearningForNow · 30/06/2012 14:17

Only bother with the ones that aren't the ghost writer. The ghost writer is male, tries to mimic her writing style and if you read 'Rain,' s shockingly racist. (Rain knows she's different..She's smart and doesn't fit in the ghetto. Turns out it's because she's half white..Uhm..WHAT?! How that even got published Angry)

The Casteel series is my favourite for guilty pleasure reading!

Francagoestohollywood · 30/06/2012 14:15

Virginia Andrews must have been my guilty comfort reading pleasure in the early 1990s! Grin My fav saga has to be the Casteel one, not sure who wrote it.

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biffnbuster · 30/06/2012 14:04

Some of both . I will start with the proper ones then ! Thankyou.

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picnicbasketcase · 30/06/2012 13:57

Are they actually by her, or 'The New Virginia Andrews'? The ones written by a nameless author after she died are rubbish tbh. They've just taken storylines from her actual books and changed the details a bit. Like fan fiction.